373 Comments on ““Have you ever…?” How to use Present Perfect immediately”

THANK YOU FOR YOUR FREE OF LESSION FOR ENGLISH SPECIALLY FOR PRESENT PERFECT TENSE. I AM FULLY EDUCATED FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM HOWEVER I AM ALWAYS COMFUSED MY SELF WITH PRESENT PEREFECT TENSE. I WILL APPRECIATE IF YOU GIVE ME COMPLETED LESSON ABOUT THE SAID TENSE BECAUSE TODAY I HAD YOUR LESSON BUT IT SEEMS TO ME IT WAS NOT COMPLETE LESSON.PLEASE SEND ME YOUR ATTACHED CD BY E-MAIL ABOUT SAID LESSON . I WILL APPRECIATAND THERE IS POSSIBLE I WILL MAKE SOME DONATION IF YOU HELP ME AND LESSON OUGHT TO BE DULY COMLETED.

Dear madam,
thank you for your remarkable teaching,
please madam i want you to help with these expressions,and how to use them.is sold here,is never done,is done here. please madam iwant know wheather,present cont, or past tense

It’s a little bit backwards. You can know the difference between a regular and irregular verb from the ending. Regular verbs add -ed or just -d in the past tense form but irregular verbs take other forms.

gud lesson rebeeca,
is this is the only use of present perfect tense i mean have you ever…..?

Tuesday, March 13th 2012

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No, this is just one way to start using the present perfect tense easily and immediately.
Like any tense in English, you can use the present perfect in positive or affirmative sentences, in negative sentences, or in questions such as the ones I have spoken about in the lesson.

For example,

Positive – I have lived here for 5 years.
Negative – I have not finished my homework.
Question – Have you done the laundry yet?

Please refer to a grammar book for a full explanation. All the best to you.

Thank you Rebecca for the class. It is a subject we really used a lot in conversations and sometimes we do not know how to use. I am from Brazil, but i live in the USA, so for me it is great learn more useful questions and answers with the present perfect. Thank you!!! :)

Thank you Rebecca! I’ve never though that way to learn present perfect and it was really helpful. I really like your smile and of course your lessons. I hope you can keep doing EngVid for us. Thanks again :)

Hi Rebecca,
Thank for your lesson.
could you tell me which one is correct?
He’s just went out.or
He’s just gone out.
Thanks…

Tuesday, March 13th 2012

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The second one. However there are two ways to show that an action was complete a few minutes earlier by using just.In American English, people use just with the past but in British English, people use have just with the past participle instead. I mean you can use either just + past or have + just + past participle. In this case you can say: He’s just gone out ( He has just gone out) or He just went out.

ma’am ,according to your video the last sentence , I’ve been to Brazil.what is my Q. that he went to Brazil now he returned back….Don’t he need to tell that sentence in either simple past or past perfect because the time and action both finished.

thank you so much Rebecca,i’m Jonathan Guevarra,currently working in K.S.A here in Riyadh.after my worked finish every night i’m always watching your lessons. because, i want to improve to speak in English.especially how use in correct grammar.your immediately response will highly appreciate thank you!

Tuesday, March 13th 2012

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Thanks for your feedback Jonathan. There are so many ways to improve your English skills, indirectly and directly. Indirectly, you can try to read, listen, write, speak and study as much English as possible whenever you have a chance. The direct way is to work with a private teacher or join a class where you will not only have a chance to speak but also to be corrected and to understand the rules and practices of correct English. Actually, engvid is like having several private teachers giving you mini lessons on various important aspects of speaking English. I wish you all the best, Jonathan.

Hi Rebecca.I’d like to thank you for your lectures and I apreciate your efforts .Really ,I’m a teacher of English Language .So I find your method in teaching seems successful and very easy .Thanks alot again and I hope you good , good luck with your mass students . Waiting your reply .

Wednesday, March 14th 2012

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Always nice to hear from a fellow teacher. All the best to you and your students, Abdul.

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Thanks to all of you for watching and sending us feedback. It means a lot to us and motivates us to continue. Thank you all. Please share our engvid link with others who are learning English. Thanks again.

Ms. Rebecca I watched some of your videos and its very interesting to listen. I have a job right now and I have a little problem with my grammar. Is there a subject here that’s focus on writing? I just want you to leave me an assignment to study and write my understanding in that particular subject.

would you like to explain about simple present prefect and present prefect continuous tense, past prefect tense and past prefect continuous tense?. I knew that James has told about it, but i could not understand his explanation. I’d rather you than him. Because you talked slowly and clearly. THANK YOU VERY MUCH..

Hi Rebecca I want to congratulate you for being one of the best teachers, I am Mexican I have many years living in USA and trying to learn the English language and it was impossible to learn it but by chance found a vidio where you were talking and I was surprised, that most fifty percent of what you were talking I understood and I said wow this is the perfect teacher I need, once again congratulate you rebecca for being an excellent teacher bye.

Sunday, March 25th 2012

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Thank you for your kind comments, Alberto. I wish you all the best in the future.

First of All i want to thank you, very intresting. I want to know when we can use present perfect and the difference between present parfect and past simple also past perfect ? i confuse between them every time specially past perfect and present perfect. Thank’s

GREETINGS FROM PHILIPPINES AND UAE!… WOW, dashing lessons with a dashing teacher Ms. Rebecca:) I enjoyed myself watching EngVid, how i wish i could speak english as smart as you guys:)Anyhow, I have shared your website to my colleagues and friends, they are vey thankful and happy because it really helps a lot. They are now certified EngVid addict!:) More power to your career Ms. Rebecca!

Monday, April 9th 2012

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Thank you kindly for sharing engvid with your friends. We really appreciate it and wish you all the very best with your English, wherever you may be.

Hi rebecca, thank you very much for your clear explanations. However I have one question. In the example: He’s gone to Brazil. The abreviation He’s means He is gone or He has gone???
I’m looking forward to your response

this is correct question and it’s really perfect explanation. as I know that I had lived there for a definite period to use “had”. But if we had gone to a visit then we use present perfect tense have/ has + V3. could I understand correctly. My best wishes to you, Rebeca.

Hi I’m one Hemasiri 54 years old male from Sri Lanka. I have just now watched your video on”Have you ever”. It is very clear and I understood everything very clearly. Thank you very much for your free service. It is indeed a great help to learners in the far corners in the world who are interested to learn language. All the best!

Hi Mrs. Rebeca,What is going on?
I´m a Brazilian, I´m english student. I´ll back to study for juts 03 months ago(since february) with a friend of mine that is teach me. I liked this website, your classes had been very important for me during the week when I arrive at home an access the internet.
Very good, Thank you so much!!

Thanks Rebecca, your lessons so great!!
I have 1 question for you: can I say “have you ever been in France?”? and what difference between “have you ever been to … and have you ever been in” ? Thank you!

WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! This site is best.You teachers are really doing good job specailly you Rebecca. I am getting alot.I have made a special diary for noting your material.May you always be happy.Come here We have a number of best english institues.I welcome you in Pakistannnnnnnnnn.TAKE CARE

Thank you so much. I have gotten a lot of infromation from this website. I want to go neer you guys. I mean if you teach at some school in U.S. please contact with me ,because I want to be a student at this school. Right now I’m looking for a good school to study. Thanks

hi,rebecoa i m very imperesed by your teachig but i have oe problem is that i can not speak very weel and fluantly so said that we should go to the attend english classes but i cann’t do this so please suggest me what i can do to speak english very quickly.i know all the tenses but i can do togather the words and but i cann’t speak so help me

Hello Professor Rebecca !
I would like to thank you very much for what you are doing. You are making a considerable and an invaluable effort. Please could you, please, give us a lesson about the differences between the present perfect and the present perfect continuous.
King regards.

hi Hello Rebecca!your lesson helped me a lot.and i have a clarification that how to report the past happens to the third person? for example in present tense, my friend asking me ‘are you watching movie’ how could i report the question to the third person
which of the following is correct:
1.yesterday my friend asked me that, i was watching movie
2.yesterday my friend asked me that, are you watching movie?

Your explanation is something else, you really focus on the topic that students have more difficultes. Especially for Brazilians that don´t have these structures, congrats! If i go to Canada someday a 100% sure that´ll study in your school…

teacher rebica :)
i know that present perfect is a verb or action happened in the past and the results of this action is still going on in the present time ….so how did you say that marcelo have gone to brasil while he is speacking to his friend maybe but not in brasil ?? i mean please answer me … am so confused about it

I love your English classes because I’m a brazilian student, and I’m going to be graduated as a teacher, and the videos show me everything I need to be a good teacher. I have no difficulties anymore.
Thank you very much.

hi…
what is the difference between following sentences
1) i have been there in mumbai for 2 days
2) i was there in mumbai for 2 days
3) or as u said in above lecture”i been in mumbai for 2 days
…which of the above is correct..are they mean same..
if not what’s the difference..please reply on my mail id
thanks

I’m Muaz Al- Haris . What sould I do if i’m from Indonesia and have a friend there. Then i go to Qatar , so i have an email event my friend in Indonesia. So went i chat with my friend in Indonesia what i say if he said “hi Muaz long time no see. So what i would respond.

Gr8..I’m watching ur videos since long, and all the teachers are very good. But Rebecca and Alex r really doing a great Job. They work hard and come up with very informative and good lessons.
Thanks from Pakistan!

hello ! I have never seen like that perfact lesson. you are great and you will be great to give us like that good lessons . I got alot of points about present perfact . actualy that is best job . keep it up .tnxxxxxx teacher.

Hi Rebecca, I’m from Brazil.
I agree with you when you said that present perfect makes studests nervous.
Thank you very much for this lesson. I watched this video twice and I found your tips useful, because I didn’t know that EVEN (in Have you ever…) meant “even once in your life”, and the difference between “is gone” and “have been”. It changes the idea I had in my mind about this topic.
Thank you very much, you’re such a nice teacher. I hope you post more helpful videos like this one.
Thank you.

I’m totally confused, and this tense really driving me crazy.
I don’t know when to use present perfect or past tense when talking about things I did in the past.
Could you correct this please?
“I’ve graduated from ….. In 2011 and after that I went to army and I finished past month.”

mam,if someone questions me
who ate chocolates?
then what should be my answer
Is it i didn’t eat or i had not eaten?
or
if the question is who ate chocolates,last night?
then what should be my answer then?

Hello again Robecca thank you so much for your good lessons please I have a question ! what’s the difference between I have lived in Canada for Two years an ; I have been living in canada for two years !and thank you again.

Hi Rebbeca, could you please help me with this? I’ve found the letter you were looking for. or I’ve found the letter you have been looking for. Which one is correct and why? Or both can be used? I am finding this unintelligible. Thank you

Hello Mr.Shas! This is selvi! The difference between the two sentences are, Have you washed your hands? this means that you ask in present perfect tense.For example, if u r going to eat now, and the second one is Did you wash your hands?this means that u ask in past tense,which means that, did you wash your hands yesterday? or in the Morning, or every action finished in the last minute. Thank you sir! Gud luck to you! Have a great day!

i ‘ve never been to abroad , so i hope someday i can go abroad with my husband and the rest of people in my family . to travel all over around the world . i think . it is interesting for us to explore anything.

can I use these two answers when someone asks me ‘where have you been?’ with different situations of course

1. I have been at home ( means I wasn’t at home before and now I’m at home)
2. I have been at home ( means I before I was at home but now I’m not. now I’m with someone who asks me ‘where have you been?)

Hi Rebecca thanks again for another useful lesson. I understand pretty much of the whole lesson but there was something got me confused and I hope you can answer me. When you were explaining the phase of “long time no see”, you used “someone” instead of anyone. Although I know “someone” is definitely correct but the reason I’m confused is because I remember on your other lesson, you said “someone” is used in positive form and”anyone” is used in negative form and in questions. I know English is full of exceptions. Is this one of them? I really hope you can understand what I’m trying to say here as I know my question may be a little confusing. Thank you!

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